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Jingdezhen

The thousand-year porcelain capital — where kaolin clay and Chang River water combine to produce the synonym for Chinese ceramics, the porcelain fountainhead of the Maritime Silk Road.

Jingdezhen Jiangxi
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Ancient brick porcelain kilns with smoke rising from their chimneys, local craftsmen shaping clay under the eaves of traditional wooden workshops, stacks of blue-and-white porcelain drying in the courtyard